The Mystic Fable, Volume One: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Paperback | June 15, 1995

The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.

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The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.

At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Of his many books, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Writing of History, and Heterologies: Discourse on the Other are available in English translation.

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Translator's NoteIntroductionSquaring the Mystic CircleA Historic FormationI. A Place to Lose Oneself 1. The Monastery and the Public Square: Madness in the CrowdThe Idiot Woman (Fourth Century)Laughters of Madmen (Sixth Century)2. The Garden: Delirium and Delights of Hieronymous BoschA Paradise WithdrawnEncyclopedias That Create AbsencesPaths Leading NowhereCalligraphies of BodiesII. A Topics3. The New Science"Corpus Mysticum," or the Missing Body"Mystical" as the Adjective of a SecretThe Substantive of a Science4. Manners of SpeakingPresuppositions: A Linguistic Pragmatics"Mystic Phrases": Diego de Jesús, Introducer of John of the CrossIII. The Circumstances of the Mystic Utterance 5. The "Conversar"The "Dialogue"A Preliminary: The Volo (From Meister Eckhart to Madame Guyon)6. The Institution of SpeechWhence to Speak?The "J" Prefacing The Experimental Science (Jean-Joseph Surin)The Fiction of the Soul, Foundation of The Interior Castle (Teresa of Avila)IV. Figures of the Wildman 7. The Enlightened IlliterateTextual Histories (1630-90)The Angel in the Wilderness The Legend of the Pauper8. The "Little Saints" of AquitaineThe "Deficiencies" of the Science (1606)The Persecution of "Extraordinary Devotions" (1615-45)"A Kind of Illuminati"9. Labadie the NomadA Spirit in Search of a PlaceThe Invention of ExtensionOverture to a Poetics of the BodyList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex